blonde poker forum

Not a totally serious question, but I've always wondered about the name. Sorry if this has been asked and answered before, but seeing as this place is suffused with grammar nits it seems appropriate to ask.

Assuming this site was named after Mr Colclough, why is it not called Blond Poker? Or is it supposed to be a play on words assuming 'blondes' will be rubbish at poker?

So my question is are we sexist or bad at English?

Are we human?
 Or are we dancer?

Why does the brown cow give white milk if it always eats green grass?

Maybe I'm a bit simple (extremely plausible), but isn't this a huge leap of imagination to extrapolate this simply from 'Blonde Poker'.  Isn't it just at likely that the name suggests the exact opposite of this?

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If using 'Blonde' is incorrect, is it not French we are being bad at? 'Blond' is rarely used in English. Or are we bad at both English and French?

It's a weird one because most of us are so used to the name now we don't give it a second thought - I do remember when I was first told about this place I thought it was an odd name, but it didn't suggest to me any kind of sexism. Name aside, one of the big draws of this forum for me when I joined was that there were a lot of active female members and it was very orientated towards the fun/social poker player.

If I was playing devil's advocate, i'd say that it was the logo, rather than the name, that could potentially give out those kind of signals.

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzm8kTIj_0M

Maybe I'm a bit simple, but I have no idea what you're on about. Unless you are being deliberately obtuse, I think it's safe to say that 'blonde' is more commonly used as a pejorative in the common English vernacular.

I don't hear many blonde jokes where the subject of the joke does something really clever.

It is, but it is more correct to use blond when using it as an adjective when referring to a man. If the word is a noun it refers to a female as far as I know.

It was intended as a light hearted question btw, but seeing as I have seen arguments rage over semi colon usage before I thought it not out of place here.

It's actually blonde poker, not Blonde poker, just as it's tikay and not Tikay.

True dat.

Are you trying to sidetrack me from my quest to uncover inherent sexism on the site? Am I on to something here? I've had 10 PMs warning me off already. All from pleno obv.

Ive had 15 PM's but they all said 'Eso Kral is a twat'.  They were also not related to this topic.

Get off the Internet. Haven't you got hoovering or dishes that need doing ffs?

I lolled.

:D

On my way to a work-related training course- they let women have jobs and everything these days ;dingdell; hopefully there will be some men there in case I don't understand some of it :)

They train women? What's going on in the world?

Wanna take part in this? http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=62516.0.   You can increase your blokey rep if you do!

Really disappointed my post has been up for nearly an hour and i've only had 9 PMs about it

I had 17 PM's asking me to pass on apologies re your lack of PM's.

i had 25 asking for pleno and flushy to become mods

I've had 12 asking for me to start posting in blue again.

Would actually quite like tikay (or someone who knows) to answer the question at some point please, as I am interested in the answer. Was it a(n) (intentional) mistake or was it supposed to be a bit of a joke? Or something else? Dancer?

Wasn't it because Dave had his hair dyed blonde?

Dave's nickname was "elblondie" from which blonde poker (small b) was derived. Doubt any grammatical inaccuracies were even considered

Simple as that

Ta! How times have changed.

Am guessing it's not Dave in the logo though (if it is, he kept it all well hidden!)

logo is before my time

its probably the bit that jars against some sensibilities nearly nine years on!

Maureen first told me about blonde, the name actually put me off.

It was after meeting Colclough that I joined.

A couple of years ago my stepdaughter looked over my shoulder at the pc and said " blonde poker, is that like poker for thick people"

Best of Blonde (nap)

The name isn't sexist, blonde can refer to men or women in English.

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/blonde

As has been said, the logo is though.

I don't think I understand the concept of sexist as a negative thing. Virtually all the women I know spend a goodly amount of their time trying to look more attractive.

What does sexist mean anyway? Does it mean we make assumptions about people based on gender? Well no Shit Sherlock. That's like basing the assumption that mouse turds will roll on the fact that they are round.

Think you stumbled upon the point that you can't polish a turd quite nicely, but you can roll it in glitter.

I have been on the receiving end of sexism in the workplace!! 2 guys in my old office and 7 women. The women always made me change the water barrel as they said it was too heavy for them! When I was in the RAF I saw an Army girl (probably a lesbian) carry a water bottle in each hand about 500 metres and no, they weren't empty! DOWN WITH SEXISM.

Sexism in the RAF?

Suffering jets?

;booder;

Words fail me.

After all this time, I have never actually looked at the image inside the chip on the logo.

When I first started playing I didn't click on the blonde links for ages because of the logo - it didn't seem to be what I was looking for - it was only after checking out an update that I worked out that the logo is a misleading image for the actual content of blonde.

EDIT: most of the time anyway

Think I commented on this earlier in thread...

As a noun it only applies to women, this is from your link

noun
a woman with blonde hair.
 [mass noun] the colour of blonde hair:
her hair was yellow—not any shade of blonde, but yellow

As an adjective it can apply to either, but the traditional and arguably more correct usage is a blond man.

If you were using blonde as an adjectival noun (where you use a noun as an adjective) then it would be referring to a woman. A blonde.

lol, can you really be arsed thinking that hard about it?

Haha! It's what I do for a living. Part of my job is to check for articles for grammar, syntax and other errors. I usually miss most of them to be fair. But that's not a particularly abnormal thought process for me.

That said I did try and make it clear from the start I was only pissing about.

The PokerPlayer office was once home to a 20 minute discussion about the use of the word championship over championships. It wasn't all degenerate gambling and going to the pub early.

is posting on blonde like downloading music of the internetr you get it for free but then some smart arse says you all owe me money pay up or else we have your details.....so in the worst senario a femail so traumatised by the title blondepoker and the damage it has done to her gets a probley american lawer to sue blondepoker and all its user as acuplances for ruining her life as she now has head aches and cant concentrate on foxy bingo like she used to and her sister would have never copped of with her geeza if she hadnt been so distressed by what was going on on a daly basis on blondepoker which had the effect of making her comfort eat which made her size increase leading to a feeling that every one is looking at me and that led to a lack of confidence which led to her not being able to turn up for work on time or bother with her looks any more which her counsellor tells her will need the platanum package of councilling services to have any chance of helping her and the probability is that she will never be able to work to her full potential again and there fore in order to keep her in the style she would like to be accustomed a settelment far in excess of 1,000,000 pounds onley will be considered .......which works out to about 2,058 pounds per blondepoker user,

enjoy the above, Alun.

Physician heal thyself! :) I've been doing this far too long to worry about looking like a tit when I make mistakes. Especially typos.

We all make mistakes all the time. It's why sub-editors exist. One of the biggest things you have to teach new writers is just to hand the bloody thing over as no matter how many times you check it you will still have made a few mistakes.

I love it when you talk dirty, Alun.

It's the inherent sexism on this site that encourages this sort of casual sexual harassment...

I demand the sentence be suspended.

On what grounds?

The casual nature of the crime....


Really struggling with a gif for this!!!

Although can't believe I missed this too. Irony?

That may have initially been the case when the crossover occurred, when surely everyone just uses 'Blonde' now for male and female. I have scarcely ever come across 'Blond' being used. Enough incorrect usage eventually causes changes in language.

True enough, but can't a man wind up tikay for five minutes?

Although having said that...

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/blonde_1?q=blonde
blonde
adjective (also blond)       /blɒnd/  US  /blɑːnd/
A2 with pale yellow or gold hair:
blonde hair/highlights
a blonde woman/a blond man

It hasn't changed yet ;)

I always assumed it was called Blonde Poker because Colclough is rubbish at spelling.

Think the point is that there are as many differences in ability and character within each gender as there are between genders, so making assumptions based on gender is completely illogical.  btw shouldn't this thread be moved to the Cigar forum for a proper discussion by the gentlemen?

It also means discriminating based on these assumptions.

I will, as requested, reply to the Rt Hon Welshman in due course, but Camel nails it.

To be fair, until the discussion, I never realised the incorrect or dubious spellage.

I do well recall having a bit of a to-do with Dave about the "silouette" Mascot, which I thoroughly disapproved of, as I don't much like that sort of thing.

Have to say, I'm not at all in favour of the "bimbo" thing in TV Poker shows either, but as you can imagine, that means I find myself in some very awkward positions from time to time. 

A bit risque  ?

Also from my link:

The alternative spellings blonde and blond correspond to the feminine and masculine forms in French, but in English the distinction is not always made, as English does not have such distinctions of grammatical gender. Thus, blond woman or blonde woman, blond man or blonde man are all used. The word is more commonly used of women, though, and in the noun the spelling is typically blonde. In American usage the usual spelling is blond for both adjective and noun.

Therefore, blonde can be used to refer to men and women in British English.

Yoga can help with that  ;)

*sigh* Fine, yes I shouldn't have been so black and white.

Yes it CAN be used to apply to men, but it very rarely does and in almost all cases where blonde is used as an adjectival noun it means a woman. If you say you're having a blonde moment the implication is that you are referring to a blonde woman. Even the link you've used to argue your point makes that clear.

I've deleted my original quoted post now. You're right it could easily be read the wrong way. I guess your quote of the quote will remain, but the context is better now as he can see what the intention was*.

* tikay deleted those posts too at my request

Some things offend without us intending it, Alan.....

I've never understood why people see the need to write 'sorry if I've offended anyone' after they've posted something.

Either they didn't set out to offend anyone, in which case if someone does take offence then it's that person that has the issue, not the poster. Or if they did set out to offend then they're not going to be sorry if someone takes offence.

Here's two kids taking offence.

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Bugger off.

It's the same reason people use emoticons. So much of the tone is lost in the written word. You can unintentionally offend. If I say something not intending to offend that someone takes offence from I am still sorry I made them feel like that. Even if I didn't mean to.

Alun is such a worky ticket.

Had to look that up

Lol! Only just got this. Totally whooshed me the first time. Nh, wp.

"For the avoidance of doubt" is the same - any ambiguity is entirely the fault of the writer, but he blames the stupid reader for any possible misinterpretation.